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Excel SYLK: File format is not valid error

I came across this error earlier this week so thought I'd post the solution (well a link to it) here for reference.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323626

In a nutshell this error is caused by opening a csv in excel that has no quotes around the field names and has the first field called ID - nice one Microsoft...

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